Unjapanologist

That's right, comparing so few fics and djs really doesn't give any conclusive results. Just ideas to consider ;) For the record, this is how I chose the fics: I looked at a big JP/SS fic list containing several hundred fics, whittled out those that were over a certain length and those written outside of a certain time period, actually read the rest (about twenty) and tried to pick the six that were most representative of the rest. I was actually going to make it four, like the djs (chosen from a much smaller sample), but felt the general gist of those twenty couldn't be represented by four fics. I'm going to be using a LOT of fics and djs for the 'big' experiment, in hopes of countering this problem (though I'm sure I'll never manage a lineup appropriately 'representative' of every sort of major tendency in fic about Snape). It does seem to be a trend that JP/SS in dojinshi is, on the whole, a lot more 'romantic' than in fic, and JP/SS in fics seems to have a little more variety in it. I wonder how often Snape is cast as the dominant partner in djs, really. I don't seem to come across that nearly as much as in fic.

But really, who ever has such a nose in dojinshi, anywhere?

Nobody much, as far as I can see. It struck me because the nose really is Snape's trademark (English-language fans virtually never ignore it, even in visual media like fanart), and I had trouble picking out Snape in dojinshi at first, too. I wonder if there's a reason why having a big hooked nose can't seem to be constructed as 'attractive' in some way or another in djs. Fics seem to manage well enough :)

Do monster villains in manga/anime sometimes have big hooked noses? No examples jump to mind immediately, but it's the only sort of character I can even imagine having a nose that isn't small or straight. Even human villains tend to have something bishie about them.

I'm going to have to check Japanese-language fic and other things fans have written about Snape to see if the nose does appear in non-visual media.